THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1963
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page THREE
I
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
GROWING WINGS, The Per
ennial Cycle of Birds by Sarita
Van Vleck (Doubleday $3.95).
Thero is a wealth of information
about American birds from Chick
adees to Bald Eagles in this en
joyable book. Miss Van Vleck
begins with the shorebirds gath
ering for the spring migration as
■‘the flaming April sun slips si
lently into the aquarmarine Gulf
of Mexico.” She gives such lively
detail of the movements of the
restless Dunlins and Sandpipers
that you know she was there. I
follow her form in giving capi
tal letters to their family names
—they ar.9 important families to
her.
Dramatic as she makes the
stages of the annual cycle, migra
tion, getting and defending terri
tory, mating, training the young,
you can trust her for accuracy.
The book has a preface by the
Curator of Birds of the American
Museum of Natural History and
the jacket has a testimonial from
a specialist at the Cornell Labor-
olory of Ornithology.
Bird migration has always
amazed and baffled men. Recent
experiments here described show
that some birds orient themselves
according to sun and stars. But
not all. A steamship in Bering
Sea observed flocks of murres
flying straight and sure through
a dense fog where the steamer
had to navigate by instruments.
Speed, she reports, varies from
the leisurely twenty-five miles
per hour of songbirds up to the
sixty and a hundred miles of some
large waterbirds.
The special charna of this book
comes from the writer being so
keen about her su-hject ••’nd her
ability to convey her own enjoy
ment. She not only knows about
birds but she likes them, finds
them ever so entertaining. Her
drawing of two male birds facing
each other in belligerent display
is true comedy. Then there is a
touching series of sketches of a
baby Redwing at hatching and
each day for ten days as it de
velops from an “utterly helpless
crumpled creature” to a recog
nizable bird.
One popular myth dispelled by
the author is that of th,3 utter fi
delity of birds to their mates.
They vary in this matter about
as widely as human beings.
Some are monogamous, some
polygamous and some just plain
promiscuous. Promiscuous male
birds are usually more spectac
ular than others. One of the most
promiscuous is the Ruby-throat
ed Hummingbird, “a gay bird in
every sense of the word.”
The author ends by defending
the rights of the birds to living
space. After all, she says, they
have been here 130 million years
as against man’s one million. To
day their numbers are declining
as feeding areas give way to real
estate developments, their ene
mies the bulldozer and the popu
lation explosion.
THE MOONFLOWER VINE by
Jetta Carleton (Simon & Schus
ter $4.95). This is the story of
one family, loyal, closely united,
yet each having his own lonely
struggle to come to terms with his
life. The scene is mid-America, a
quiet farm in Missouri, or some
times the nearby town where the
family moved when Matthew
Soames was asked to be princi
pal of the high school.
Matthew and Callie Soames
had four daughters. We see them
first as mature women come
home for a summer reunion. Two
of them are married, one has a
job in New York, the fourth is
not there. Majthy, the strange
one, had died young, but her son
is the pride of the family. That
summer visit was a good time,
giving the daughters a brief illu
sion of return to childhood and
the rule of their parents. There
were shared memories and shared
joys, such as the moonflower vine.
WHITE'S
REAL ESTATE
,,„AGEN,gy.4.
ESTHErSf. white;' Broitej?!
Then the novelist takes up the
history of each person separate
ly, the tumultuous experiences,
the trials, the growth that has led
each to this moment of serenity
and family harmony. Each is a
good story in itself, and they in
terweave to make a fine tapestry
of family forebearance, family af
fection, a sort of testimony to
the elusive, tenuous, strong bond
that makes a real family.
VOICES IN THE SNOW by
Olga Andreyev Carlisle (Random
House $4.95). What is life like for
an artist in the U.S.S.R. today?
Has the rejeettion of Stalinist re
pression made a difference? Who
are the leaders? Olgo Andreyev
Carlisle visited Moscow in 1960
to find out. She was well quali
fied. She spoke the language, she
came from a family of Russian
writers, she had spent her early
years in a colony of Russian exiles
in Paris, she was a painter and
writer herself, so these people
talked to her warmly and freely.
The book consists chiefly of her
interviews with Sholokov, Paster
nak, Ehrenburg, Yevtushenko, a
few less known writers, and her
pen portraits of these people in
their homes. Most attractive is
her picture of Pasternak, glowing
and vigorous at seventy, outwalk
ing her in the snow, conversing
eagerly on a dozen subjects, hap
py in the midst of his family, full
of enthusiasm for his work in pro
gress. Yet Pasternak as well as
Sholokov .seemed to her in some
ways the last links with the past,
shadowed bv nineteenth century
natterns and the cruel violen'’f' o*
^'^e verrs of Pc'^’clution and two
World V/ars.
What were the new men like?
S'le found a cousin who was one
of them. They went to art ex
hibits, poetry re.idings, sat drink
ing tea and talking ^/ith their
kind for hours. These younger
people were very alive, confident,
serious about their responsibili
ties to the country. The govern
ment prints their work in large,
inexpensive editions, accessible to
and welcomed by the masses. Edi
tions of popular poets run from
twenty to a hundred thousand
and are sold out rapidly. The
Communist Party calls them “en
gineers of human souls.” It is also
in their tradition from Tolstoy
and Dostoievski to consider con
tent and social significance im
portant, but the narrow interpre
tation of this that made so much
writing dull as government prop
aganda has relaxed. Dudintziev is
much admired for his attack on
corruption among officials in
“Not By Bread Alone.” He has
followers.
Many of Mrs. Carlisle’s state
ments about this group are based
on long conversations with
Yevtushenko, a poet whose popu
larity she compares to that of a
movie star in America. A volume
of his verse, “Selected Poems,”
has just been published in this
country by Dutton. It includes
“Babiy Yar”, an attack on anti
semitism in Russia and else
where, which made the news col-
ums last autumn when he recited
it to a crowd of five thousand in
Mayakovsky Square.
It seems clear that the Party
now permits and even encourages
writers to range more widely in
subjects and ideas. Yet the literary
life in the U.S.S.R. still has its
dangers. A Russian language
magazine published in West Ber
lin recently reported that four
authors who said the wrong
thing had been committed to
mental institutions.
THE REV. R. N. HINKER
TWO VISITING SPEAKERS
THE REV. C. M. JONES
Leadership Training Program Will
Continue Sunday At United Church
Sessions in the Leadership
Training program at the United
Church of Christ will continue
Sunday, February 24, with the
Rev. Richard N. Rinker of Elon
College and the Rev. Charles M.
Jones of Chapel Hill as featured
speakers, the Rev. Carl Wallace,
pastor of the local church, re
minds all interested persons.
The program began last Sunday,
with the Rev. Harold Myers of
Burlington and the Rev. John
Lackey of Winston-Salem as
speakers for the afternoon ses
sions.
Events of both Sundays com
prise a program conducted pri
marily for leaders of various ac
tivities at the United Church of
Christ, but leaders in other
churches and all other interested
persons are invited.
The Rev. Mr. Rinker, who is
director of religious education for
I’ac Southern Convention of the
United Church of Christ, will
preach at the regular 11 a.m. ser-
’•ice at the United Church of
Christ on Sunday. His topic will
be “Relating Christian Education
to V/itnessing.”
In the afternoon session, the
church’s Board of Christian Edu
cation will be in charge of the
devotion at 2:30 p.rn.
At 2:40,t he Rev. Mr. Rinker
will have as his discussion topic,
“The Role of the Total Church
Program in Christian Education.”
At the conclusion of his talk
there will be a coffee break. At
3:40 p.m., the Rev. Mr. Jones,
v/ho is pastor of the Community
Church in Chapel Hill, will speak
on “Witnessing Via Social Act
ion.”
The Rev. Mr. Rinker is field
secretary for the Southern Con
vention of Congregational Chris
tian Churches (acting conference
of the United Church of Christ),
with responsibilities in Christian
Education.
He has degrees from the Uni
versity of Connecticut and Hart
ford Theological Seminary. Before
coming to North Carolina, he
served the Pennsylvania Confer
ence of Congregational and Chris
tian Churches and was pastor of
a Pittsburgh church for four
years. With his wife and three
DIVERSITY
North Carolina is called the
“variety vacationland” for its
great divessity of recreation spots.
The tourist trade is a major in
dustry in the state. It is valued
at more than 300 million dollars
a year. In the far west is Great
Smoky Mountains National Park.
From here the scenic Blue Ridge
Parkway stretches north 477 miles
to Shenandoah National Park in
Virginia. The North Carolina Fact
Summary lists all state parks,
national forests, nd other pices
of interest.
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Consultations by appointment on Saturdays
Monday, Feb. 25, Doubs Chapel
Route: John Willard, 9:35-9:40;
Frank Cox, 9:45-9:55; F. L. Sut-
phin, 10:-10:10; John Thompson,
10:15-10:25; Clyde Auman, 10:30-
10:40: L. M. Hartsell, 10:40-10:50;
W. E. Jackson, 10:55-11; R. L.
Blake, 11:05-11:10; Arnold Thom
as, 11:15-11:30; Mrs. Joyce Hay
wood, 11:35-11:45; S. E. Hannon,
11;50-12; Mrs. Herbert Harris, 12:-
35-12:40; Coy Richardson, 12:45-
12:55; V. L. Wilson, 1:-1:45.
Tuesday, Feb. 26, Murdocksville
Route; R. F. Clapp, 9:35-9:40; Ed
win Black, 9:50-9:55; Mrs. Flinney
Black, 10;-10:10; W. R. Dunlop,
10:30;Dan Lewis, 10:35-10:45; Miss
Margaret McKenzie, 10:50-10;55;
Earl Monroe, 11;-11:05; Mrs. Helen
Neff, 11;10-11:20; Harold Black,
11:30-11:40; J. V. Cole, 11:45-11:
50; Art Zenns, 11;55-12:05; Sandy
Black, 2:10-12:20; Mrs. Lillian
Whitaker, 12:25-12;30; H. A. Free
man, 12:35-12:45.
Wednesday, Feb. 27, Cameron
Route: James Hardy, 9:30-9:35;
M. M. Routh 9:40-9:45; G. G. Pat
terson, 9;50-9;55; Mrs. J. A. Mc
Pherson, 10;-10:05; Mrs. H. D.
Tallv. 10:10-10:15; Mrs. Archie
McKeithen, 10:20-10:35; Mrs. Isa
belle Thomas, 10;40-10:50; Walter
McDonald, 10;55-11; Mrs. Ellen
Gilchrist, 11:05-11:10; Wade Col
lins, 11:25; Lewis Marion, 11:30-
11:40.
Thursday, Feb. 28, Mineral
Springs, Sandhills Route: W. R.
Viall Jr., 9:45-10:05: J. P. Hedden,
10:15-10:35; E. T. McKeithen, 10:-
40-10:55; J. W. Greer, 12:15-12:30;
Richard Garner, 12:45-1; Mrs.
Bertha Harm, 1:10-1:25; Ed Smith,
1:30-1:40; W. E. Munn, 1:55-2:05;
T. L. Branson, 2:10-2:15; W. M.
Chriscoe,. 2:20-2:25; the Mr. Rev.
Reynolds, 2:30-2:40.
children, he now lives at Elon
College.
The Rev. Mr. Jones, now pastor
of the Community Church in
Chapel Hill, was pastor of the
Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
for 12 years and had previously
served churches at Brevard and
in Virginia.
A native of Nashville, Tennes
see, he was educated at Maryville
College in Tennessee, Columbia
University in New York and
Union Theological Seminary,
Richmond, Va. Between periods
of study, he v/orked in a rayon
mill and an automobile factor^
and operated a small restaurant
in San Antonio, Texas.
The denominational bienniel
emphasis on which the Leadership
Training programs are based is,
“The Church: A Learning and
Witnessing Community.” Special
attention is being given nationally
to new curriculum materials and
the need for adequate leadership
preparation.
Soil Test Helps
Raise Crop Yield
By F. D. Allen
County Extension Chairman
When you have your soils test
ed you are getting information
needed for making sound deci
sions about your liming and fer
tilization practices. Returns for
money invested in lime* and fer
tilization will be affected by a
number of conditions including
the degree of acidity and the fer
tility level of a soil.
You get the degree of acidity
from a soil test for pH. Soil test
information includes suggestions
for amounts of lime to bring the
pH of acid soils into the range
considered desirable for the crop
ping system indicated for each
field sampled.
Soil tests also tell you whether
your soils are low, medium, or
high in phosphorus and potas
sium. Fertilization practices can
be varied according to these fer
tility levels, even for the same
crop.
Investing money in fertilizers
containing the amount of nutri
ents needed for high yield can
mean good returns, provided a
comiplete production program is
carried out.
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As 1952 ended, there were 4,-
550,000 Korean Conflict veterans,
15,110,000 World War II veterans,
2,400,000 World War I veterans,
24,000 Spanish - American War
veterans and 26 veterans of the
various Indian Wars ahve as well
as about 140,000 career military
veterans carried on VA’s copen-
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fBVfDR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN:
Christian Credo
I.esson for February 24, 1963
Bible Material: Mark 8:27 throufjh
9:1
Devotional Reading: Philipplan>-
1 12-21
T" HE word “Credo” comes froui
* the Latin and it means “I be
iieve.” Most Christian churches
repeat the “Creed” during t!ie
Sunday worship But a person
might know the Creed by heari
and still not really believe it. Some
Christians fiy on
the wings of oth
ers, so to speak
They expect to
“go to heaven on
their grandmoth
er’s ticket.” They
expect to get cred
it for what Grand
mother believed
It can’t be done
Dr. Foreman Some churches
have no creed but the Bible. They
feel that nobody understands a
creed anyhow, and that creeds
are the language of men not ol
God. As a matter of fact, aU
Christian creeds are based on the
Bible, and it is a striking fact that
they are all much alike, and often
m the exact words of the Bible. H
a man believes just one single
thing, he has that much of a
creed.
Believing what we cannot see
Let us look at another word
Science. That comes from another
Latin word, meaning “1 know.”
What is the difference between a
Credo and science? What is the
difference between a Creed and
knowledge? One difference is this:
If I say “I know” something, and
I do know it, then I can prove it
to anybody who is not blind or
crazy. But if I say “I believe”
something, I can be just as sure
about it as if I “knew” it, and it
can be just as true. Only, what I
believe is not public knowledge,
shared by everybody. It is private
;i:id personal. It goes beyond what
any fool can plainly see.
The most important truths in
life are precisely those that can
not be proved, but must be be
lieved. When a girl promises to
love and to cherish a young man,
how does he, how does any one
know she is telling tire truth? It
e most important thing in hi.'-
but he must live by it, noi
■ it. We believe that God is
but not every one knows
hough everybody knows the
: blue. You can know that
: love not by having some
ove it to you: you have to
faith that it is true.
t Christian creed
'St Christian creed was
( the shortest. Jesus asked
L t friends: Who do men
Si’ am? Peter’s answer is
f' V Mark as a very short
Oil' are the Christ! With
tha sentence Peter regis
tered. 'lief about Jesus and
his be; Jesus. From that day
io this. ist has held the cen
ral plav here may be all kinds
>1 Churcl'.i... but one kind you will
lever see is one where the peo
)le won’t say whether they be
leve in Christ or not. Any “Chris
ian” who hasn’t made up his
iiind about Jesus is hardly ready
o be called a Christian.
Mind you, Peter did not say al!
he things, he did not use all the
vords. about Jesus that the church
vould one day use. But in that
dmple declaration, You are the
Christ, was packed something vi
tally important. For one thing.
Peter places Jesus in a class by
Himself. No Jew in those days
thought there could be more than
one Christ (or Messiah—the two
titles mean the same)T Further.
Peter meant to say that Jesus
was the Number One Authority
over men. To be Christ means to
.share the sovereignty of God Him
self. How could Peter know this
was true? he never tried to prove
it, but he dared to live by it.
Call to all, call for all
There is a very important fea
lure of Christian faith, at its cen
ter and heart. That is, genuine
Christian faith is much more than
leciting a list of what you believe
More important than belief-about
IS belief-in. 'There is a poem called
“Not What but Whom I do Be
lieve”; it speaks for Christians
everywhere, it declares faith in
a Person not in a Proposition.
There are millions of things one
can know or believe, without be
ing changed at all. A man who
believes oatmeal is good for him
is just about the same man if he
changes his mind and concludes
that oatmeal is bad for him. But
if a man believes that God is good,
if he goes on and is not changed
by that belief, he doesn’t really
believe it. Christian belief chal
lenges all men, calls to all; and
true Christian belief calls on a
man for all that is within him.
(Based on ontllneB eopjrrifhted by
the DItIsIoh of Christian Education.
National Cottnoll of the Chnrohes of
Christ in the U. S.A. Boloased by
Community Press Service.)
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METHODIST CHURCH
Midland Road
Robert S. Mooney, Jr.V Minister
Church School 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service 11:00 a.m.
Youth Fellowship 6:15 p.m.
WSCS meots each third Monday at 8:00
p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Avenue
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
ReadinK Room in Church Building open
Wednesday, 2-4 p.nv.
Next Sunday
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship service
11 a.m. and 7 :30 p.m. PYF 6 p.m.; Women
of the Church meeting 8 p.m. second
Tuesday. Mid-week service Thursday 7:30
p.m.. choir rehearsal 8:30 p.m.
ST. ANTHONY^S CATHOLIC
Vermont Ave. at Ashe St.
Father Francis M. Smith
Sunday Masses: 8 and 10:30 a.m.; Daily
Mass 8:10 a.m. Holy Day Masses, 7 and 8
a.m.; Confessions, Saturday, 5:00 to 6:3(<
p.m. ; 7:30 to 8 p.m.
Men’s Club Meeting, 3rd Monday each
month.
Women’s Club meetings: Ist Monday
8 p.m.
Boy Scout Troop No. 873, Wednesday
7 ;30 p.m.
Girl Scout Troop No. 118, Monday, 3 p.m.
OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH
Civic Club Building
Corner Pennsylvania Ave. and Ashe St.
Jack Deal, Pastor
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
U.L.C.W. meets first Monday 8 p.m.
Choir practice Thursday 8 p.m.
BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
(Presbyterian)
Dr. Julian Lake, Minister
May St. at Ind. Ave.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship Service
EMMANUEL CHURCH (Episcopal)
East Massachusetts Ave.
Martin Caldwell, Rector ......
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (First Sundays 11 a.m. Women of the Church meeting,
and Holy Days, 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.)
Family Service, 9:30 a.m.
Church School, 10: a.m.
Morning Service, 11 a.m.
Young Peoples* Service League. 4 p.m.
Holy Communion. Wednesday and Holy
Days, 10 a.m. and Friday, 9:30 a.m.
Saturday 4 p.m.. Penance.
8 p.m Monday following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at 7 o’clock
each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
(Church of Wide Fellowship)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Carl E. Wallace, Minister
Sunday School, 9:46 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fellowhip
(Young People).
^nday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at South Ashe St.
Maynard Mangum, Minister
Bible School, 9:45 a.m.. Worship Service
11 a.m., Training Union 6:30 p.m.. Eve
ning Worship 7:30 p.m.
Youth Fellowship 8:30 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday 7 :30 p.m.
Mid-week worship, Wednesday 7:30 p.m.;
choir practice Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
Missionary meeting first and third Tues-.
days, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers,
second Thursday, 7 p.m.
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